*What Are You Best Ingress Tips?*

If you've already gotten your Ingress Invite… You should have had a bit to get out and play now… What have YOU found are the best tips for playing, leveling etc…

What I've found is neat about this game.. is once you hit about level 2… you start really getting into it… You get hooked! My local area has all developed communities here on Google Plus… and even though most of these people are not "using gplus"… most of them are super active in these groups.. and now starting to USE google plus. They are also planning get together HIRLS with strangers to coordinate portal hunting and take downs… And I think that is pretty freaking neat.

I won't give away my secrets in public. All I can say is join the resistance! I also recently joined a private G+ community in our area to share tips and coordinate attacks. These communities will be an integral part of successful Ingressing, I think.

Sure, linking portals gets you experience points, but think before you link. Once you draw a line, other lines cannot cross it. If you draw a line between two level five portals twenty miles apart, you are cutting the areas on either side off from each other.

If you care about "winning" as opposed to just leveling up, then draw sensible connections between portals and try to establish control fields. Don't just make random connections because you can. You could end up screwing up all kinds of potential control fields that other players could create by hooking up those portals that you've cut of from each other.

Friendly portals are way more generous to "farm." I have dozens of portal keys, but I do better to stock up if I just keep doing circles in a smaller area to hack rather than go to the remote ones. Also, working together with a couple of people to break and takeover a portal seems to get more AP for everyone involved. My team lets those with the lowest levels do the linking.

I'd say: Interact as much as possible with the other players of your own fraction in the area(s) in which you play. Playing on your own is nice enough, but playing with others is so much more fun for me.

Biggest tip for IngressStep 1 uninstall….you'll thank me for itCrashy map. I don't get why google earth, maps, local, and field trip work exponentially better… 2nd- if you must play get to know your local college kid. They're passing codes in order to be logged in everywhere at all times. helps when you're trying to attack a portal and only have 1 person there. now you have 20 or 30. 3rd and final. Don't get out of your car….you don't have to. You can attack portals pretty easily at 25-30 mph. Just carpool

+ Scott Schultz, I have been burned when my attempt to link two nearby portals was delayed by a long-distance link that crossed between the two.

To save my sanity and gas bill, I'm concentrating on maintaining portals in a few limited geographic areas. Sure I'll hack and attack all over the place, but in terms of portal maintenance I've narrowed down to a list of less than a dozen portals that I will maintain. I dumped the keys for the other portals at various locations – debris for someone to pick up, I guess.

This becomes especially critical as portals increase in level, since more and more XM is required to recharge higher level portals. I'm conserving my XM to recharge these portals, and not worrying about every other Resistance portal in the universe.

Pro Tips: form a community, NEVER GO ALONE (seriously me and a buddy took half my town in an hour last night) have some one who knows to how find codes, have a good car, use a 4g phone, use your intel map BEFORE you go out, become friends with Joe and Brandon they'll give you free stuff!!!

I agree with + Steve Djadoenath . In Seattle we've now had 3 Resistance meetups and we've had a blast. I've learned new tricks, leveled up and I've gotten to help lower level players and had a lot of fun. There is nothing better than lunch with a group of mostly strangers after spending the morning hacking portals.

Linking can also be a strategy to stop other teams from gaining control fields. If you can coordinate attacks enough to take down key opponents portals then follow it up with a connection it makes another obstacle for them to cut through to regain ground.

Wow so many haters well that's life. But looks like you ARE going or ARE currently playing. Which ever side you join, ask in your faction chat where they talk most cases its g+ or an other website. You will usually get tons of tips and help there. I agree with + John Taylor although I'm Enlightened. Also, I've met some awesome people and only one is a college student not sure what that matter but hey. Have fun because it is fun. 🙂

1) Expect the Unexpected – The game is still beta, and they are using storylines in an intriguing way to justify changes, glitches, patching exploits, etc. There is a lot of buzz about something major about to happen… just as we are hitting "the end of the world." Links are already decaying. Could be possible that we will see a game reset, a new faction, all fields gone… you just don't know. If you are a whiner, just don't even bother playing.

2) A Field Is a Field – You get the same number of AP (experience points) whether you make a tiny field or a huge field. Make as many little fields as possible for maximum points. Also, a Field is always a triangle. 3 points with 3 links that do not intersect. You can even make a field within an established field (no new MU) and still get the AP for creating the field.

3) The Game Is Going to Be Different for People in Rural Areas than in High Density Urban Areas – Big cities mean lots of players & lots of portals. You have to be a team player. For those of us who are rural, find the little towns around you & you'll probably find portals at the fire station, the post office, and the library. Connect your little towns with long links. Urban & Rural can work together well because the Rural folks can create barriers to contain high-power players in the Urban areas.

4) Always click "Faction" before communicating

5) Play Well With Others – This means playing as a team, but it also means treating the opposition with respect. We just had our first Enlightened player in our little area. We are giving him a grace period to establish some fields & level up. I actually ran into him at one of the portals, and he's a great guy. Yeah, it's been a rush to see our little city under a canopy of blue, but having active competition makes the game so much more fun.

6) Be Safe! – Put down the phone when you are driving. Just… trust me. Also, there tends to be little traffic at 1am, but being out at that time makes you look suspicious. Police don't like you in a graveyard after hours. Just… trust me.

1. Plan your routes using the Intel map2. Work together to attack and share the AP spoils of links and fields3. Leave room for the other team, its no fun without competition4. Bring snacks5. Bring extra batteries for your phone or tablet6. Use a co-pilot in the car so you can concentrate on driving7. Meet people!

1) Only dirty hippies go #resistance Channel your inner #darthvader and be #enlightened .2) Flash those dimples if hacking portals near government buildings, police stations, airports, etc, to reduce the chances of being put on a terrorist watch list. 3) Don't drive when playing this game. Kind of takes half the fun out of it if you aren't getting out and walking. 4) Submit strategic portal location requests through the Camera/Gallery's share function to NIA Super Ops. Especially important if the area you play in isn't a metropolis teeming with portals.5) http://ingressportal.com/guides/faq/ is what I'd tell every new player to read first.

I just started and while at 2 close portals I noticed that they were being taken over by the resistance (I'm resistance). I noticed 2 guys walking around with their phones and started talking to them. They helped me out tons. 1. As others have said hack everything.2. find others to help you when you are new. You will need it.3. Portal keys and links are changing today. I haven't figured it out yet.4. When you are new don't waste your time attacking a multi-link upper level portal.5. Before chatting make sure you know where it is going "ALL" or "FACTION" 6. Try to get right on top of the portal when attacking.7. Have fun.